Mount Calvary Sermons

FIRST OF ADVENT 2015 LUKE 21:25-36This morning in a spirit of humility and repentance, in keeping with the beginning of Advent, I thought I would bring some evidence of my sins to show you. Not that any of you need convincing that I have legions of them, but it does me good to bear my soul and beat my breast from time to time. Most of the time I’m fully aware of when I’m sinning, but in this instance I didn’t know until weeks later. It was the winter of 2013 and I received this letter in the mail. I was curious, because it bore an Italian stamp, and in the top left hand corner of the envelope it said, “poste italiene”. Now I had no idea what was waiting for me in the envelope. So I tore it open, read the letter and still had noidea what was waiting for me in the envelope because I don’t speak Italian. I could, however, read the numbers, and one in particular caught my eye. 121 Euros. The previous summer I vacationed in Florence, hired a car, and apparently violated all mann